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#25 album of 2013 – We Need the Rain by the Bye Bye Blackbirds
Artist: Bye Bye Blackbirds
Album: We Need the Rain
If I’d run a personal poll of my music-geek friends to name the best album of 2013, I think the winner would have been We Need the Rain, an old-fashionedly tuneful guitar-pop album by the Bye Bye Blackbirds. This comes with a caveat: a large share of my voters would have been personal friends of Blackbirds singer/songwriter Bradley Skaught (with whom I’m a friendly online acquaintance). But it […]
#26 album of 2013 – I Fear a New World by Cold Crows Dead
Artist: Cold Crows Dead
Album: I Fear a New World
Cold Crows Dead, as evidenced on their debut I Fear a New World, play mostly-pretty music of a polyglot form that’s become modestly popular in indie rock circles. Most of the songs — we’ll get to the exceptions — combine the sort of creatively-processed flutes/ violins/ piano/ etc orchestration that dates back to Pet Sounds; with synthesizers that convey an eerie analog feel more akin to early […]
#27 album of 2013 – Felicite Thosz by Magma
Artist: Magma
Album: Felicite Thosz
I present to you the following inside look, in internal-dialogue form, at my annual album ranking process:
“Wow, 2013 has been an incredible year for progressive rock. So many albums full of brilliant, dynamic, adventurous-yet-melodic playing — so many albums where I don’t have a clue what the singers are on about, and I don’t need to because they aren’t even what sticks in my head”.
“Yeah, but if you cram those reviews in […]